In August, I was reading ...

2018

Elizabeth and her German garden,

by Elizabeth von Arnim

2017

Matriarch:  Queen Mary and the House of Windsor,

by Anne Edwards

2016

The big house:  a century in the life of an American summer home,
by George Howe Colt

2015

The watchmaker of  Filigree Street,

by Natasha Pulley

2014

Under magnolia,

by Frances Mayes

2013

Eighty days:  Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's
history-making race around the world,

by Matthew Goodman

2012

Greenery Street,

by Denis Mackail

2011

The Warden,

by Anthony Trollope

{#6barsets begins!}

2010

The Grand Sophy,

by Georgette Heyer

2009

Thanks for the memories,

by Cecilia Ahern

2008

Miss Pettigrew lives for a day,

by Winifred Watson

2007

Espresso tales,

by Alexander McCall Smith

2006

Still life,

by Louise Penny

2005
Circle of sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones,
Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin,
by Judith Flanders

2004
Into love and out again,
by Elinor Lipman

2003
Eat cake,
by Jeanne Ray

2002
Good harbor,
by Anita Diamant

{The painting is Couch on the Porch,
by Childe Hassam (1914)}